news, ezines:
Arts & Letters Daily
Drudge Report
EDGE
HackerNewsNetwork
Pgh. Post-Gazette
SalonHerringWiredFool
Slashdot
Salon
shift
Solar Data
USGS Quake Info
Wired
Yahoo! Top Stories
webcams:
my cam
BC's Cam
magic 8 ball
Popocatepetl
S.F. Bay
UCLA Solar Tower
Vegas Wedding Cam
meta:
transhumanism 101
transrealism 101
technorealism.org
weblogs:
abuddha's memes
alamut
Barbelith
Blogthis
Bubble Chamber
Camworld
dumbmonkey
FactoVision
GirlHacker
intention
KeithBrown.com
kottke.org
linkwatcher
memepool
metafilter
metascene
pith and vinegar
Robot Wisdom
scribble
Scripting News
stating the obvious
texting
Subterranean
usr/bin/girl
Weblog Monitor
wetlog
xblog (visual thinking)
03.01.2000
movin:registered a domain name ... not saying what it is till its all been processed... will be moving stuff around, not sure how I'm going to restructure everything that I've got going, need to do some thinking, draw up a plan. I don't have much content to rework (the blog, a minimal directory for my freelance/design info {I really need to get that whole thing together - that's another story}). try to plan ahead with reason, sure. anyway, the blog will be moving soon... I may rename it, I dunno what I'm gonna do!
psycho:
random shooting spree in pittsburgh today went down a few blocks from both friends and family... got a phone call from my sister, talked to my 3 yr. old niece who wanted to
know "why did that man want to hurt people?" ugh.
the guy freaked out about a broken apartment door, shot a building maintenance guy in the neck... set fire to the apartment, then ran through 2 fast food joints shooting people. jeez man... it's just a freaking door! NBC downplayed, CBS picked up the "hate crime" angle ... the guy who freaked was black, and left a message on someone's machine going on about killing some white people because no one on the maintenance crew was black. tragic irony.
02.29.2000
looka:ask Jeeves spy page
seen:
How can I get the most popular girl in bed?
Where can i find interesting animals dancing?
My insurance company wants to total my car because of hail damage but the car still runs good, what should i do?
Who is smarter man or woman?
How do I give a girl an organism?
Do geese marry for life ?
Where can i find nude inflatable cartoons?
grim:
the grim reaper's age guesser (guessed I'm 22 ... I'm really 31)
satan shows up at the last Gore/Bradley debate (via mark's weblog)
02.28.2000
k:back to happy bright pixels
neo:
the red pill or the blue pill?
net:
what's the deal with scan line backgrounds on the web? it's getting to me, the novelty has worn off. Make. It. Stop. Please. Really. And. This. Word. Period. Word. Thing. Too.
just so you know... the background image on this page is covered in transparent scan lines. is that not kewl or what!
02.27.2000
hm:somebody's stealing my dsl IP address... I've had to call Bell Atlantic every day for a few weeks because of a problem with dropped connections (I may be up for 5 min or 5 hrs, its been arbitrary)... finally, this afternoon the service tech was able to ping my IP while my modem was off... meaning someone had ripped my IP. the Bell tech said they have to refer to this situation in their notes that someone is "sharing my IP" - I asked why not just call it stealing, because that's what it is, right? tech said "that's just what we have to say". ok. whatever. just gimme a new IP address already.
02.26.2000
vibe:I love my dsl line (when it's up) because it brings me drum-n-bass mp3 streams (via intention)
yay:
installed a perl search engine script (fetch.pl), now the pixel.txt weblog directory is searchable. results show up with a link and brief summary. the script grabs <meta> tags, but they're fairly obvious when they show up.
I need to tweak the script's html output a little bit, but other than that it's working just as it should.
css:
Toward a standard font size interval system
This document discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various deployed and recommended methods of specifying font sizes in Web documents and application interfaces, and proposes a harmonization. This scheme will enhance the legibility, clarity, and aesthetics of documents presented on screen, and help retire less elegant alternatives that are hurtful to the Web as a dynamic information resource - one that is accessible to users with widely varying needs and purposes. It is intended for Web browser and stylesheet implementors of all religions, but may be of interest to Web authors and digital typography and/or CSS enthusiasts at large.a standard would be nice (css browsers would be nice). I noticed the other day how crummy my style tags for this page rendered the veranda font in iE 4.5 (mac) ... fixed a few things. now calling Trebuchet MS as the default font @ 11 points. if you're using windows/ie5 or AOL and have a minute, I'd be grateful for some feedback on how agreeable this page is for reading (as far as the font is concerned :)
one browser gripe... the iCab beta (for mac) is essentially useless here without making changes to my link structure. all links are preceded by a relatively linked cgi call for logging. iE and netscape handle this fine, iCab requires the full http:// path (plus, iCab has no support for css yet). for this month at least, I'll be leaving my links the way they are. on sites where iCab is happy, it's a cool little browser. RAM suckage of only around 5mb. that's 3 times less ram than I allocate to netscape 4.6, and half what ie 4.5 uses on my machine. small. while I'm bitching... I tried out the newest mac netscape (4.72) for a few days, but it froze on me so often that I just trashed it. save yourself the aggravation.
02.25.2000
uh...aromatherapy highlight markers?
The sweet smells of aromatherapy can help relieve the pains of studying or working late! Lavender/Purple restores relaxes and balances your mind. Lemon/Yellow stimulates the senses, energizes the body. Peppermint/Pink relieves fatigue and uplifts the spirit.sure.
CA 101:
that big tree
the lost coast
vibe:
reggae mp3 streams
net
webmonkey guides: hexadecimal HTML color chart, special characters, basic unix
02.23.2000
vibe:devo guitar tablature
02.22.2000
word:you could be reading essays on the philosophy of technology
jean baudrillard takes a step into guy debord's (essential) Society of the Spectacle in Disneyworld Company:
It is no longer the contagion of spectacle that alters reality, but rather the contagion of virtuality that erases the spectacle. Disneyland still belonged to the order of the spectacle and of folklore, with its effects of entertainment [distraction] and distanciation [distance]. Disney World and its tentacular extension is a generalized metastasis, a cloning of the world and of our mental universe, not in the imaginary but in a viral and virtual mode. We are no longer alienated and passive spectators but interactive extras [figurants interactifs]....Situationist International text archives
02.21.2000
net:brought to mind by the What the hell is a weblog? feedback going through Powazek.com, a rant from 1995 that still makes sense - why the web sucks
Yeah, you heard me. I might complain about the goofy things plain old individuals do with the web, but I complain because I care. I don't give diddleysquat for corporations. I care about human beings. I want to hear what they have to say. The net is precious to me because it gives ordinary human beings a way to communicate with other ordinary human beings. Corporations have too many ways to cram their ads down my throat. Human beings have the net.egads:
china ready to fight US over taiwan
China is ready to engage in war and even nuclear conflict with the United States should fighting break out over Taiwan, Der Spiegel magazine reports on the basis of a supposedly-secret Chinese file. "Document No. 65", allegedly produced by the military sub-committee of the Chinese Community Party's central committee, discussed the possible course of a war over the disputed island claimed by China. (via drudge)
02.19.2000
word:trying to come up with a domain name that I like. have been into the dictionary, looked into availability of some words that I liked at networksolutions.com and everything I came up with was taken. most words are gone. variations like netaphor.com - gone. optica.com - gone. so, I'm thinking the way to do it is to make up a word that is entirely meaningless, nonexistant, but has some aesthetic resonant quality to it. found a random word generator cgi.script that I'm going to play with...
gweep: 1.v. To hack, usually at night. "I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning." "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week." 2.n. One who habitually gweeps 1; a hacker. "He's a hard-core gweep, mumbles code in his sleep." ( jargon dictionary)mumbled some wierd things last night, but not code.
02.18.2000
art film:while not an "art film", Basquiat is a film about the american artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. a friend rented the video and I saw it for the first time last night. actors were good, david bowie as andy warhol worked well, willem dafoe, christopher walken, & dennis hopper were in there. storytelling was rushed, too much story in too little scene (directed by julian schnabel, one of Basquiat's soho contemporaries). art in the film was plentiful, not sure how much of it was Basquiat's work. (more, nice desktop-sized .jpg selection of many artists work linked there in sidebar, btw)
2 conte/pastel figure sketches of mine
02.17.2000
word:literary hypertext: the passing of the golden age, a robert coover essay
And even the word, the very stuff of literature, and indeed of all human thought, is under assault, giving ground daily to image-surfing, hypermedia, the linked icon. Indeed, the word itself is increasingly reduced to icon or caption. Some speak hopefully of the binding of word and image, many, perhaps also hopefully, of the displacement of word by image. There is a genuine fear -- or hope -- that our old language of the intellect, systematic discourse, and poetic metaphor may very soon be as foreign and esoteric as ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablets.HTML:
tag of the week (tricks, some CSS tips covered)
opt out:
10 things keith brown hates about california
I'd empathize but that would be too ironic.
code breakthrough:
a guide to MRML, Mind-Reading Markup Language:
MRML tags can be embedded into any regular HTML document. They are completely invisible to all browsers. No one will ever know you are using them.<thoughtsuck> </thoughtsuck>
(via those whacky kids @ the aluminum foil deflector beanie page, like they need another link)
fud:
camworld noted this story about sliced peanut butter:
Food researchers at Oklahoma State University have developed a way to slice peanut butter and then wrap it individually like sandwich cheese. If all goes smoothly, sliced peanut butter could change the way busy parents and energetic teens approach snacky meals, said OSU food researcher and assistant professor Danielle Bellmer.my first thought: individually wrapped slices of peanut butter are going to produce a lot of unnecessary plastic/petrochemical waste, and as such, this is environmental unconsciousness of the highest order (plastic p.b. jars in the current system at least have a shot at being recycled). my 2nd thought: from personal experience, it takes less time to stick a knife in a jar for a wad of p.b. than it does to unwrap a slice of american... so I don't buy the "busy parents and energetic teens" time-saving marketing angle of the researchers. my 3rd thought: if people are really so inept that they need to have their peanut butter pre-sliced, we're fucked.
What Would Elvis Do?
The 7 Vices of Highly Creative People
• be a drinkerwerk:
• begin with a smoke
• put gambling first
• think oysters
• seek fashion first, then seek to be understood
• sex
• abuse the card
I need to add a search function to this weblog. today, tomorrow, soon.
installed a perl script called 'linkmanager' to get a grip on my content, but I'm not too sure what I think about it yet. need to screw around with it some more. what I should do is bite the bullet and just learn how to use Frontier.
also, waiting for my sys admin to install the perl modules I need for XML & RSS ... then we'll be having real fun around here
Component Based Page-Layout in XHTML